Past Honorary Degree Recipients

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2024
Greg Hill
Noah Hull

2023
Harold Garde
Paul Street

2022
None

2021
Joe Kelsey (Awarded 2022)
Carol Mead

2020
Crawford White Eagle (Awarded 2021)
John A. List (Awarded 2023)
Jim Magagna (Awarded 2021)

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2009
Barry Douglas
Mary Ellbogen Garland
Tracy Ringolsby

2008
Peter D. Lax
James C. Nielson
Michael J. Sullivan

2007
None

2006
Oliver Boileau
Jim Hageman

2005
Jerry Buss
Truta Cooper
Jim Logan
Frank Mendicino

2004
Evelyn M. Bell
John Clay
Ward Gates
Malcom McKenna

2003
Daniel S. Klein
James F. Neal

2002
Kenny K. Amaihian
Dick Scarlett

2001
Donald Kendall
E. Gerald Meyer

2000
Edward C. Bryant
Solomon D. Trujillo

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1999
Frederick Brant Rentschler II
Alan K Simpson

1998
None

1997
John P. "Jack" Ellbogen
William Doyle Ruckelshaus

1996
Beatrice Gallatin Beuf
Jerry W. Housel
Robert N. Harris
Roger Soder

1995
Kenneth L. Hoy
Thomas F. Stroock

1994
None

1993
Lynne Cheney
Jack Rosenthal

1992
Lynn M. Martin
Ralph E. McWhinnie
Pius Moss
Teno Roncalio

1991
Winifred J. Hickey
Lloyd H. Snider
John Wold

1990
Richard B. Cheney
Gerald L. Spence

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1989
None

1988
H.A. "Dave" True
James A. Barlow

1987
Ewing Thomas Kerr
Bernold M. Hanson

1986
Harry Jackson
Margaret E. Murie

1985
Donald L. Blackstone, Jr.
Lawrence Milton Woods

1984
T.A. “Al” Larson

1980-1983
None

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1979
Fritiof M. Fryxell
Victor J. Hammer
Velma Linford
Charles Rogers

1978
Wilhelm G. Solheim
Kenneth L. Tallman
Carl Edward Sagan

1977
W. Sherman Burns
Frank Johnson Trellease
Rudolph T. Anselmi
Robert Mac Vicar
Finis Mitchell

1976
Adolph Deutsch
William Mulloy
Robert W. Fenwick

1975
Stanley K. Hathaway
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.

1974
Harold McCracken
Lowell J. Paige

1973
Ian MacGregor

1972
Curt E. Gowdy
Lillian G. Portenier
Joseph M. Roebling
Ernest C. Miller
Victor Weybright

1971
Harrison Scott Brown
Robert Douglas Coe
Charles Chacey Kuehn
Thomas E. Starzi, M.D.

1970
Jack R. Gage
Shirley M. Hustedler
Leo McLaughlin
Joe H. Watt

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1969
Arthur B. Belfer

1968

H.T. Person

1967

Edd Hamilton Bailey

Floyd Elgin Dominy

Donald Roger Sabin

1966

None

 

1965
Clifford Peter Hansen
Frederick Brown Harris
Gale William McGee
Nels H. Smith

Abdul Samad Hamed

1964
Margaret McIntosh Boice
Bob Hope
George Duke Humphrey

1963
Marlin T. Kurtz
Samuel Cochran Phillips
Laurence S. Rockefeller

Zahir Shah

1962
William M. Fitzhugh, Jr.
Herold G. Merriam
John C. Stennis

1961
Wilson Obert Clough
John David Love

1960
J.J. Hickey
Tracey Stephenson McCraken
John A. Reed

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1959
J.C. Donnell, II
Morris H. Hansen

1958
W. Edwards Deming
Thomas S. Harrison
Oda S. Mason

1957
Fred H. Blume
Glenworth Marion Willson

1956
William Rogers Coe
Albert Arthur Slade

1955
Perry W. Jenkins
William Thomas Nightingale
David M. Potter
Susan J. Quealy
Milward Lee Simpson

1954
J.E. Brock
Fenimore Chatterton
Glenn E. Nielson

1953
Frank A. Barrett
George Palmer Johnston
Samuel Howell Knight
Robert Wells Lazear

1952
Mary G. Bellamy
L.C. Bishop
Ralph Kimball

1951
J.J. Early
Blake T. Kennedy
Charles M. Smith

1950
Lester Galloway Hunt
Leslie Andrew Miller
James Byron Wilson

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1949
Harry W. Bashore

Emory Lee Jewell

Percy Craig Spencer

A.E. Stoddard

 

1948
William Robertson Coe

Charles A. Myers

 

1947
J.A. Hill
J.C. O'Mahoney
Fred E. Warren

1946
A.G. Crane

Jack Bugas

J. L. Morrill

1945
Fred G. Gurley

Nelson T. Johnson
James Cash Penney

1944
General J. Pershing
John W. Hay

James Wilson

1943

Thurman Wesley Arnold

Herbert Jeffrey King

George Edward Pendray

1942

John Edward Anderson

Constant Louis Irwin

Goerge Brown Pryde

Harry Stanley Rogers

1941
George Washington Thornton Beck
William Henry Jackson

1940

Bryant Butler Brooks

William Edward Chaplin

Ernest Dichmann Peek

Nellie Tayloe Ross

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1939
Major General Herbert J. Brees
Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land
William M. Jeffers

1937
Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves
Dr. Aven Nelson
Justus Freeland Soule

Grace Raymond Hebard

1934
Frank Wheeler Mondell
Elwood Mead

1933
Willis Van Devanter

1932
Rev. John Roberts

John Benjamin Kendrick

1921
Carrie Chapman Catt